Tech Tools for Interactive Remote Teaching Webinar
Students, parents , and teachers can use Quizlet as a digital learning tool. The website contains over 100 million sets of study materials created by other users ranging from Historic Supreme Court Cases to Structures of the Heart and the entire website is available in English, Spanish, and German, but for those who want to input text from a wide variety of languages, Quizlet supports many foreign languages / keyboards. It is free to use these study sets, or users may build their own, so the possibilities are endless! Quizlet takes data and transforms it into flashcards, quizzes, and games, so that in a variety of ways, users can research the same knowledge. And users are not limited to only using text. It is easy to include photographs and audio in study materials. Best of all, it is possible to exchange study materials with learners, peers, parents , and teachers.
Math: Have each student create a study set containing problems or equations as the terms and answers as the definition. Then, have students pair up and take each others study set in the Quizlet form of a test. After they are done, students determine which problems they did not solve correctly, and the student who created that problem should explain how to correctly get to the answer. Students are thus learning material both through traditional learning means but also through teaching fellow classmates.
Science: Have students create a study set on the topic being studied. For each term or topic, require that students find an image or gif that relates to the topic and helps them remember it as a memory hook. While studying that set in the “learn” or “test” mode (which tracks incorrect responses), require the student to choose a new image or memory hook if they get the answer incorrect more than once.
English/Language Arts: Create a study set of vocabulary words. Have students utilize the quizlet text-to-speech function to learn proper pronunciation of the words. Then have students utilize the “Spell” study mode, forcing students to type in responses that must be spelled correctly. Instead of then assessing students learning in a traditional vocabulary test, test them using an in-class spelling bee!
Other: Have students find a study set (from the millions of user-created flash card sets) relating to a topic in the class and assess that study set for accuracy. If the student finds inaccuracies, have the student explain how they would correct each card to make it accurate.